Lead Consultant, Data Science

Telstra Purple (formerly Readify)

N/A

2020 - 2018

Consulitng and professional services in data science.

Mainly focused on establishing emerging data practice and business both in data Victoria and nationally.

• Educating the business on data and data science, and the role it plays in our professional services offerings
• Leading teams and being the interface to customers and stakeholders
• Teaching technical and professional skills

• Educating the business on data science and the role it plays in our offerings • Leading teams and being the interface to our customer • Teaching technical and professional skills • Helping career growth, guiding, conducting job retrospectives • Recruiting new consultants and graduates • Member of the Victorian leadership group, working on strategy, assisting in operations, being conduit between executives and consultants • Member of national data leaders’ forum • Pre-sales, meeting customers, writing proposals and tender responses, estimating effort, drafting of statements of work

Highlights: • Machine learning model of housing prices. Presented to audience at a large customer to explain machine learning and demonstrate our capability. Using Azure Machine Learning tools, Docker, R and Python.

• Data preparation and analysis for a government department. Processing data collected from Telstra antennas, we estimate population locations and movements. Data aggregated to customer’s specifications. Using Spark, Hadoop HDFS, Scala, Bash and Power BI.

• Consulting for a manufacturing line. Found data spread across line and business that could be joined to track materials and equipment settings for each run. Proposed building a model from the data, finding the important parameters in determining quality, and recommending ranges for those parameters.

• Tender response for Ambulance Victoria. Designed data architecture in Azure, from ingestion, through data lake and warehouse and into machine learning models. Presented architecture to tender review team.

• Recruitment

Senior Analyst, Data Science

Readify

N/A

2017

Career change from engineering into data science. First data-specific hire in many years—and the first ever data scientist—in Victoria.

• Modelling of business efficiency for electricity companies. Econometric modelling consistent with how they’re evaluated by market regulator. Using R and Shiny.

• Project Batman

Research Scientist and Engineer

Defence Science and Technology, Department of Defence

N/A

2017 - 2007

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Electrical engineering and mathematical analysis forecasting the behaviour of power and energy systems and the consequences for the performance of naval surface ships and submarines. • Creation of numerical models, algorithms, and terminology for the simulation of energy flow through a submarine; shared widely within the organisation as the framework for modelling and evaluating submarine performance on metrics such as range and endurance • Conference presenter and author of accompanying papers on modelling and simulation topics such as the application of statistical sensitivity analysis, genetic algorithms, multi-objective optimisation techniques, and hardware-in-the-loop simulation • Leader of team crafting a state-of-the-art research program into ‘power hardware-in-the-loop systems’, developing methods to integrate real-time simulations of virtual systems with physical items of hardware under test; obtaining and investing over $5 million of funding into equipment, infrastructure, and university collaborations • Author on multiple reports advising government, predominantly on aspects of Australia’s future submarine, undertaking numerical modelling for committees that developed the Defence White Papers of 2009 and 2013, and coordinating a technical risk assessment for Federal Cabinet • Selection for the internationally-recognised Postgraduate Submarine Design and Acquisition Course at the University College London, including being posted to London for nine weeks • Negotiation, establishment, and management of ongoing research partnership with the Queensland University of Technology • Deputy laboratory manager charged with workplace health and safety risk assessments, having developed the risk assessment template now recommended for use throughout the division • Leader in rewriting organisational policy on electrical safety, negotiating with other committee members, and adapting industry best-practices to meet the unique needs of a research organisation

University Maths Tutor for Engineering and Science

Monash University

N/A

2006 - 2005

Conducted tutorial classes for students in undergraduate mathematics subjects: • “Statistics and Integral Transforms for Engineering” (third-year engineering) • “Multi-variable Calculus” (second-year science)

Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours) in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering

Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

2006 - 2002

Selected achievements and awards:

• High Distinction average
• Studied under a Sir John Monash Scholarship
• Graham Beard Memorial Prize for overall excellence in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering course, 2006
• RS Components Award for Engineering Excellence for student with highest level of academic excellence, 2006
• Multiple other awards in earlier years of study

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics

Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

2006 - 2002

Selected achievements and awards:

• High Distinction in every subject
• Dean’s List Fellowship for Science every year eligible, 2003, 2004, 2005

Microsoft Professional Program for Data Science

Microsoft edX

N/A

2019

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Professional Scrum Master I

Scrum.org

N/A

2018

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